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in their new position. Many will even then return to the 

 old spot, but not enough to interfere seriously with their 

 prosperity. If the bees cannot, as in my hives, be kept 

 cool and dark, they will be excessively uneasy, and may 

 suffer very seriously from so long confinement : hence the 

 very great importance of setting them in the cellar. 



It may seem strange, that bees, when their hive is moved, 

 or when they are forcibly expelled from it, should not 

 adhere to the new spot, just as when they have swarmed 

 of their own accord. In each case, as soon as a bee 

 leaves its new place, it flies with its head turned towards 

 the hive, in order to mark the surrounding objects, that it 

 may be able to return to the same spot ; but when they 

 have not emigrated of their own accord, many of them 

 seem, when they rise in the air, or return from work, en- 

 tirely to forget that their location has been changed ; and 

 they return to the place where they have lived so long, and 

 if no hive is there, they often die on the deserted and des- 

 olate, yet home-like spot. If, on the contrary, they swarm- 

 ed of their own accord, they seldom, if ever, make such a 

 mistake. It may truly be said that 



" A ' bee removed' against Us will 

 Is of the same opinion still." 



I have been thus minute in describing the whole process 

 of creating forced swarms, not merely on account of the 

 importance of the plan in multiplying colonies, but because 

 the driving or drumming out of bees from a common hive, 

 is employed with great success in a variety of ways which 

 will be hereafter specified. I doubt not that many bee- 

 keepers, on reading this mode of creating colonies, are 

 ready to object that it not only requires more skill, but more 

 time and labor, than to allow them to swarm, and then to 

 hive them in the old-fashioned way. 



